Philosophy Quotes - Page 52

Love has no distance or barrier, it's instantaneous.

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!

It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.

Enthusiasm and passions are the fundamental ingredients of all success.

Live, not just for livingLive, not just for gettingLive for the beauty of lovingLive for the joy of giving.

Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.

Surrender to love to feel the joy of life.

One thing I will surely miss is that I couldn't read all the good books in this lifetime.

You have to get lost to find your true self.

If one knew the truth how could there be freedom? If hell and paradise were in the middle of the marketplace, everyone would be a saint.

The most important and most difficult thing that you can change is your fixed false beliefs.

Yoga reveals to you the beauty of mindfulness and takes you into the essence of an endless present moment.

When you believe in your beauty, only then can everyone see it.

The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things.

All the most difficult problems become easy when we find the solutions.

There are many hidden truths behind a lie

The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds.

Choose to long for love, to live in love, and to be the love so that you can achieve higher consciousness.

I never speak in silence.

Quote words that affirmall men and women are yourbrothers and sisters.

The vagina is obliterated from the imagery of femininity in the same way that the signs of independence and vigor in the rest of her body are suppressed.

With your, love touch someone's heart, feel their soul, enjoy their bliss, share your joy, and then become their friend.

No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.

Today is the best day with great possibilities and opportunities, so change yourself to start a new beginning.

Paint your life with the magnificent colors of a joyful sunset.

Where do they go, these dreams of mine? Do they live? Do they die? Do they fall? Do they fly?

When stuck in middle of a choice, we always do what we must. Do things we think is right. We are actually never get stuck. We just love to feel stuck.

A loving heart is a magical magnet for magnificence.

Some day people will ask me what is the key to my success...and I will simply say, "good Karma.

A conscious mind is the playground for thoughts and ideas and the ultimate source of personal philosophy.

A smile is a subliminal way of saying, “Hi dear, You are beautiful!

I never quite understood the question that says, is the glass half empty or half full? What’s the difference? Eventually it’ll end up empty and in the trash.

I am not alone even in solitude.

Success is not a finite resource; share it, wish it on others, and celebrate others

Not everyone understands what a completely rational process this is, this maintenance of a motorcycle. They think it's some kind of "knack" or some kind of "affinity for machines" in operation. They are right, but the knack is almost purely a process of reason, and most of the troubles are caused by what old time radio men called a "short between the earphones," failures to use the head properly. A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.

A true sage is simple like a child.

For wordsmiths and masters of words, without necessarily being harsh with words, the words have a tendency to shoot straight to the hearts of people, and this either deeply touches them or deeply angers them. Like the apostles in all their loving controversies are those who are masters of words while combining this gift with truth.

O my beloved! Wherever I am, I am with you always because you are always in my heart.

On the way toward success, obstacles are the barrier to build the power of the mind.

Dream more to live more.

It is not very difficult to build world peace. We just have to be kind to each other and treat each other with great care.

A fool always finds something to complain about, and a wise person always finds something to appreciate.

Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.

If you are loving, you will attract love. If you are kind, you will attract kindness. If your heart is at peace, you will create an aura of peacefulness around you.

You're like a fish. You want to evolve, to climb onto the land, but the ocean won't let go of you so easily. The currents of your past would sooner destroy you than let you go free.

When artificial intelligence comes of age, the first thing it's going to do is get rid of the inefficient parts.And guess who that will be!And what will happen to us?Well, to find out the answer to that question all you have to do is see what we do with all of our unwanted rubbish.

In my imagination, I can feel your presence. I can feel the warmth of your passionate hug. I can hear your sweet voice. I can hear the song of your beating heart.

Pain may be the only reality but if mankind had any sense it would pursue the delusion called happiness. All the philosophers and poets who tell us that pain and suffering have a place and purpose in the cosmic order of things are welcome to them. They are frauds. We justify pain because we do not know what to make of it, nor do we have any choice but to bear it. Happiness alone can make us momentarily larger than ourselves.

How shallow is the stage on which this vast drama of human hates and joys and friendships is played! Whence do men draw this passion for eternity, flung by chance as they are upon a scarcely cooled bed of lava, threatened by the beginning by the deserts that are to be, under the constant menace of the snows? Their civilizations are but fragile gildings: a volcano can blot them out, a new sea, a sand-storm.

It is not enough to be a man.

The war for peace can destroy the whole world.

When everything is social, suddenly nothing is.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special aspect of life, to supply conceptual tools which will do a certain necessary kind of work. Wide though that area of work may be, it is never the whole, and all ideas lose their proper power when they are used out of their appropriate context. That is why one great philosopher does not necessarily displace another, why there is room for all of them and a great many more whom we do not have yet.

Love yourself because everyone is jealous of you.

Tolstoy was a Caucasian, Gandhi was an Asian, and Martin Luther King Jr. was a Negro, yet all of their hearts were inspired by the one idea of nonviolent resistance. King received it from Gandhi, Gandhi received it from Tolstoy, and Tolstoy received it from Christ.

Learn from your past, use the possibilities of the present moment, and let the future open the doors of opportunity.

When you perceive through your senses, the object may be, of the outside world, but you see the object, inside of you, in your awareness field.

To be a success, plant the seeds of dreams. Then take care of those plants.

Once you emerge from the state of absolute divinity, the self within you becomes Christ – it becomes Buddha – it becomes Moses – it becomes Krishna. The sage who emerges from the state of non-duality begins to perceive the self as Christ, not Christ as Christ – the self as Moses, not Moses as Moses – the self as Mohammed, not Mohammed as Mohammed – the self as Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.